Re: [PLUG] Tech jobs and politics, and IT diploma mills

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

William H. Magill wrote:

> According to the Population Research Institute (Penn State):
> [HTML version]
> http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:1tPU7avcYOMJ:www.pop.psu.edu/ 
> general/pubs/working_papers/psu-pri/ 
> wppa9901.pdf+median+individual+income+pennsylvania&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
> [http://www.pop.psu.edu/general/pubs/working_papers/psu-pri/ 
> wppa9901.pdf]
>
> "The median personal income of college graduates at nearly $30,000 
> and  graduate and professional degree graduates of $40,000 per year 
> are  three and four times higher, respectively, than that of high 
> school  dropouts in the Pennsylvania labor force.


Just looking over that PDF makes me want to go back to school.  Is a 
two-year degree considered "some college"?  I'm assuming that "college 
graduate" only refers to four-year degrees.

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